Question

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

What part of the plot does this excerpt reveal?

Answer 1

This is part of the exposition; understanding that they have created a new society but that even in a place where they believed that life would be perfect and a sort of Utopia, they knew that they would eventually need prisons and cemeteries because inevitably people will die and start to revolt.